In only their second full season on the World Match Racing Tour, Australia's Torvar MIRSKY and his Mirsky Racing Team of Kinley FOWLER, Kyle LANGFORD, Tudur OWEN, and Graeme SPENCE have claimed their first win at the Troia Portugal Match Cup.

Victory here for the 24 year old skipper Torvar MIRSKY puts him in company with other world-famous match racing legends who have been champions at this event, including Peter GILMOUR (AUS), Chris DICKSON (NZL), Peter HOLMBERG (ISV), and Ed BAIRD (USA). And for their efforts, MIRSKY and team have won 10,000 Euros of the 50,000 Euro prize money purse.

"It's been six years in the making, but we're finally here," said an exuberant MIRSKY. "So many times we've been so close, but just unable to get through, and today everything just came together for us. I'm still a bit stunned we're here!"

MIRSKY took his fellow antipodean Adam MINOPRIO (NZL) and his Emirates Team New Zealand/BlackMatch team in just two matches of the first-to-two point final, displaying a smooth sailing style and impeccable sense of timing both in the pre-starts and around the track. It is this same style that also in only two matches got him past Mathieu RICHARD (FRA) and his French Match Racing Team in the first-to-two point semi-final.

Mirsky Racing Team was not on fire throughout the entire event, however, as they barely qualified to the quarter-finals on a 6-6 win-loss record in the round robin. That all changed yesterday, however, as they went on to win all but one match in the quarter-final, semi-final, and final rounds.

And while the first match of the final was decided fairly early in the game as MIRSKY took and extended on his winning start, the second match was far from easy. At the top mark the Kiwis were at the mark zone on the left, and attempted to force out the Aussies from claiming room with a hard luff. Amidst a heated exchange and calls for room, MIRSKY managed to slip inside and around the mark in the lead, which he kept throughout the match to the finish.

"We enjoy a good rivalry with Adam and his team," said MIRSKY, "and actually trained with him over the past week in Valencia. He's been doing so well lately, we needed this win just to slow him down!"

Indeed, in the overall World Championship leaderboard MINOPRIO's runner-up finish here has earned him another 20 points to maintain a healthy 12-point lead. And on the strength of his exciting 2-1 win over RICHARD here in the petite-finals, reigning World Champion Ian WILLIAMS (GBR) and his Bahrain Team Pindar have jumped up to the runner-up position, but only a point over RICHARD. And MIRSKY has vaulted 25 points ahead to go from eighth to fourth.

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